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awesome, whatever you’re happy with ??

I wouldn’t want to do eleven thousand comments that way, but if that feels easier, then I’m glad you found your answer.

Auroras, may I suggest you head over to https://www.wordpress.com and sign up for a blog?

WordPress is not something bloggers necessarily wish to install on their home computer, at least not in the way you want to.

WordPress.com will give you a running start. If at that point you decide you want your own self-hosted blog it’s easy to switch, and you’ll have much more experience as your basis for doing that.

For most purposes, you may never want to leave… even if you want your own aurorasblogstuff.com address at some point, you can do it there.

Good luck.

the htaccess redirects are for google results and bookmarks as much as they are for anything else.

search/replace on your database fixes your own posts, but it doesn’t fix people’s bookmarks.

In order to avoid redirecting people from your site to your site, I suggest doing both the search and replace *and* the htacess 301 redirection.

The nice thing about 301 (permanent) redirections is that once people or search engines use those redirects once, they won’t be required anymore, so you could leave them there for a few months and optionally choose to remove that.

If your old posts still had old links in them, you’d have to keep the redirects there forever.

IMO, do both.

that’s an excellent way to get a character limit on your excerpt.

a fairly easy way to get a word limit, though, is to use the_content_rss instead of the_excerpt. That function apparently allows you to specify a word limit.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/the_content_rss

You’re welcome Chris, and cheers for the (far too) kind words ??

I’m using WP-PageNavi by Lester Chan for that. Been using that plugin for a long long time. It’s nice and simple.

There are others to choose from though, particularly one called ‘digg style page…’ something or other, which looks quite powerful if you want the muscle-car version of pagination plugins.

Drop a note in the Your WordPress forum here when your site goes live, so we can nit pick it, and steal your best ideas, ok? ??

Good luck.

no.

get yourself phpmyadmin by installing a wordpress plugin of the same name.

look at a plugin called register plus, it allows people to specify their passwords when registering.

I dunno about this plugin, but try looking on your general settings page at the bottom, where it says “Week Starts On….”

check out this thread: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/176407

you’ll never guess how I found it ??

well, then maybe you’re wrong ?? or at least you’re not making it clear whether you do indeed want to remove the link or not.

I did post an example above…

if you don’t want it to be a link, keeping all these things with the word LINK in them seem like a bad idea:

<?php the_permalink() ?> rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">

by the way, life will be simpler for you if you use the code button on the posting toolbar above where you’re typing your posts, to insert backticks around your code snippits.

This is just one of those hurdles you’ve got to get over with customizing your blog… a little HTML goes a long way. For some it comes more easily with a book, but unless you’ve been at this for a solid week and still haven’t got the hang of it, I’d say a book probably isn’t necessary.

well there are a couple of things I might change about that page… not the least of which is to close that second loop much much earlier.

how about something like this? (note I haven’t actually tested it and I don’t have a url to your site, so I’ve not been able to get a wonderful impression of how this looks, so YMMV ??

https://wordpress.pastebin.ca/1041255

I’ve also futzed with the indenting to make life easier on myself (not necessarily on you, sorry about that).

that should clobber the appropriate variables to display your tags… and also avoid putting your left/center/right cols into your latest post loop.

try turning what you’ve posted into this:

<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>

and see how you go.

It is possible to remove the underline and change the colour of your heading links, if you did actually want them to remain links… but as you’ve stated, if you don’t want them to be links at all, this is how to do it.

unless you’ve done something silly like close your </body> tag in your header, that stupid site you’re using is obviously wrong… so… stop using it?

please use the code button when pasting code, so we can see what you’ve actually got there, instead of this mishmash.

what you really need to remove is the:

<a href="some stuff here" rel="more stuff" title="blah blah"> . . . </a>

part.

basically, pay close attention to the angled brackets and remove only that which I’ve shown here. Everything signified by the dots should stay, so text between the open A and the closed /A should stay, but the anchor tag itself should go.

well, since the_tags() is a core function, there would be something terribly wrong if it didn’t exist, so that’s one check I think you can avoid.

Having said that, there’s no reason this wouldn’t show, assuming that it’s positioned within your loop on the front page.

If you’ve created a loop using something other than the default varaibles, that could be the reason the_tags() can’t find your tags.